This thread reminds me of a joke I heard about beer in the UK.

It goes like... Q: Why do the British drink warm beer? A:
Because Lucas makes their refrigerators

Please take no offense, just a bad joke i heard.

More Lucas jokes http://www.mbz.org/info/fun/lucas/

EDIT: I thought this was great from this same page:

In reply to:

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Positive ground depends upon proper circuit functioning, which is the transmission of negative ions by retention of the visible spectral manifestation known as "smoke". Smoke is the thing that makes electrical circuits work; we know this to be true because every time one lets the smoke out of the electrical system, it stops working. This can be verified repeatedly through empirical testing.

When, for example, the smoke escapes from an electrical component (like, say, a Lucas voltage regulator), it will be observed that the component stops working. The function of the wire harness is to carry the smoke from one device to another; when the wire harness "springs a leak." And lets all the smoke out of the system, nothing works afterwards. Starter motors were frowned upon in British motorcycles for some time, largely because they consume large quantities of smoke, requiring very large wires.

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Sean in NC